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Facebook IPO Crashes SEC Website Top
facebook-ipo-secIt appears that the excitement over the Facebook IPO has crashed the SEC's website. The link to the Facebook SEC filing, previously available here, is no longer loading. Instead, we're seeing a "this webpage is not available message" when attempting to load the site using Google's Chrome web browser, and similar errors in other browsers. This has gone on for several minutes now, as everyone is clicking through to read the filing. That's too bad for anyone coming late to the news - you'll have to wait for those who already had it loaded up on their screens to tell you what it said.
 
Zynga Makes Up 12 Percent of Facebook's Revenue Top
Everyone likes to talk about how dependent Zynga is on Facebook, but that relationship cuts both ways. In the social network's S-1 filing, Facebook says that Zynga accounted for 12 percent of its revenue in 2011, through a combination of virtual goods payments and advertising.
 
Facebook's S-1 And The Largest Shareholders: Who Owns What? Top
Mark ZuckerbergFacebook's S-1 is finally out and we can now see how much stock Zuck, investors, employees and others own in the company. Facebook has raised a total of $2.4 billion in funding and seeks to raise as much as $5 billion in a public offering. Mark Zuckerberg is the largest shareholder with 28 percent of the company. He's followed by Accel (invested in 2005) and Accel Partner Jim Breyer who owns 11.4 percent of the company. Co-founder Dustin Moskovitz owns 7.6 percent of the company, followed by DST with 5.4 percent. Peter Thiel, Facebook's first investor, owns 2.5 percent. COO Sheryl Sandberg has 1,899,986 shares.
 
Facebook's Profits: $1 Billion, On $3.7 Billion In Revenues Top
facebooklogoFacebook just filed its IPO registration and its financials are off the charts. The company did $3.7 billion in revenues in 2011, and $1 billion in profits. That's right. Net income was $1 billion. Profits grew 65 percent last year from $606 million in 2010. And revenues grew 88 percent.
 
Facebook's S-1 Reveals: 845 Million Users Every Month, More Than Half Daily, Half Mobile Top
845-million-facebook-usersAs part of its initial filing to go public, Facebook has just revealed some new user numbers that illustrate just how big it is. It had 845 million monthly active users and 483 million daily active users as of December, for year over year growth of 39% and 48% respectively. Mobile is also half the user base, with 425 million monthly actives. Some other stats, which are a big more vague: 100 billion friend connections as of the end of last year, and 2.7 billion Likes and Comments per day during the last three months of the year.
 
Pearson-Incubated Startup Alleyoop Launches To Gamify Adaptive Learning Top
alleyoopAccording to the National Center on Education and the Economy, only 1 in 6 high school freshmen will go on to graduate from college on time, and about 25 percent of Americans drop out before they finish high school. A Pearson-backed startup launching today, called Alleyoop is betting that by combining adaptive learning with some elements of gamification, it can help prepare high schoolers and young people for college -- and increase college graduation rates.
 
Facebook's S-1 Letter From Zuckerberg Urges Understanding Before Investment Top
g287954g47m63Facebook has just filed its S-1 to IPO. Below is the letter from founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg about Facebook's purpose, in which he explains "Facebook was not originally created to be a company. It was built to accomplish a social mission — to make the world more open and connected. We think it's important that everyone who invests in Facebook understands what this mission means to us."
 
Facebook Files For $5 Billion IPO Top
fblogoThe wait is over: Facebook has just filed for its IPO. Facebook is looking to raise $5 billion— and will mint hundreds (perhaps even thousands) of employees as millionaires in the process. You can find its S-1 embedded below, or right here. Rumors of Facebook's public offering have been swirling for years, and have long been routinely sidestepped by CEO Mark Zuckerberg and COO Sheryl Sandberg. The company has openly acknowledged that an IPO was indeed inevitable, but has avoided giving any sense of timing — "When we're ready" has become a familiar mantra from Facebook executives.
 
Path, Google+ And Jack Dorsey At The 2011 Crunchies: Comebacks Win Top
CrunchieAwardThe world loves to celebrate comebacks from failure, but the Crunchies and the companies it features are all so new that the show hasn't done much of that. That changed last night at the 2011 Crunchies, with Jack Dorsey, Path and Google+ winning big. Path's story hits home the most for me.
 
Hey Look! It's A Square iPod Nano… With A Camera! Top
nano 7 2Man, it feels like it's been forever since the last time we've seen a seemingly legit Apple leak. Maybe they've tightened the security around the factory lines; maybe it's because the last two major hardware releases were mostly indistinguishable from their predecessors at a distance, and were thus rather hard to photograph properly. Whatever the case, Chinese Apple blog Apple.pro has shots of what might be the next generation iPod Nano. It looks just like the current itty-bitty 6th generation nano, with one notable twist: it's got a camera.
 
BlackBerry Users Least Likely To Score On The First Date… In Canada, Mind You Top
Screen shot 2012-02-01 at 4.25.42 PMYou've heard of Match.com, right? It's a dating site much like OkCupid or eHarmony, and from the bowels of the website's collective online dating profiles, a company called Zoomerang harvested an interesting bit of data regarding who gets laid and which phones they own. In Canada, mind you. According to the study, BlackBerry users are the least likely to hook up on the first date, scoring just 48 percent of the time. In Canada, mind you — you know, where RIM is based. Meanwhile, Android users seem to know their way around a pair of pants, hooking up on 62 percent of their first dates. iPhone users fall smack in the middle, with a lead-off home run 57 percent of the time.
 
Swarming Robots Will Fly Menacingly Towards Your Loved Ones In Perfect Formation Top
This video is making the nerd rounds today and it's pretty amazing. It shows a set of quadrocopters first righting themselves after a catastrophic failure and returning to a certain point (the scientists throw the little guys into the air and they turn over and fly back to their hands light frightened starlings) and then we see how these monsters can fly in formation around obstacles and through windows.
 
Microsoft Updates Kinect Hardware For Official Windows Release Top
01We've known for some time that Microsoft would be bringing official Kinect support to Windows this week, but one thing they kept quiet was the fact that they'd be debuting a new version of the hardware as well. It's not tiny, as some hoped, or built into the bezel of a laptop, as we know it will be eventually, but it does improve on the original in a few ways.
 
Stealth Startup Numecent Raises $2 Million Series A For "Cloudpaging" Technology Top
numecentNumecent, a stealth startup building a patented "cloudpaging" technology, just raised $2 million in Series A funding from undisclosed corporate investors. The $2 million tranche is a part of a larger $10 million funding round, and is in addition to the $7.5 million in seed funding the company has already raised from private investors. Exact details as to what Numecent is developing are not known, beyond a general description of what "cloudpaging" means, as provided by the company.
 
Wahooly Launches Its Crowdfunding Experiment With First 3 Startups Ready For "Social Capital" Top
Screen shot 2012-02-01 at 1.08.47 PMThere's an interesting experiment afoot in the startup community, which poses the following questions to entrepreneurs: Would you be willing to trade equity in your startup in return for social media buzz, and customer feedback? How much, if any, would you fork over? Minneapolis-based startup called Wahooly is both asking those questions -- and proffering a few answers.
 
Bebo Apologizes For Downtime: "We're Not Going Anywhere" Top
beboWhen social network Bebo went down on Monday, what seemed like a flood of distraught users concluded that the site must be shutting down, and they took to Twitter to commemorate it. Instead, the downtime turned out to be the result of technical problems. The site was down for about 20 hours, and now the company is about to post an apology, advertised site-wide through the banner ad above. We've obtained a copy — CEO Adam Levin explains that the team was working on some new features and accidentally crashed the site. He also assures users, "We're not going anywhere."
 
Nintendo Partners With free-hotspot.com For Free 3DS WiFi Access Across Europe Top
Model poses with Nintendo Co Ltd's new 3DS handheld game console in ChibaThe Nintendo 3DS just got a bit more connected. The gaming company has teamed with free-hotspot.com to provide 5,000 access points to 3DS owners throughout 22 European companies. 3DSs can now hop online while abroad at various locations including McDonalds, Burger King, KFC, Subway, Ibis Hotels and Etap Hotels. US gamers have enjoyed free hotspot access for sometime now. Nintendo partnered with AT&T to allow access at their hotspots and then late last year, Nintendo struck with Boingo in late 2011 that opened access at various airports.
 
Picture Messaging App Zlango Hits 1 Million Android Users Four Months After Launch Top
zlango-screenZlango, a goofy but fun icon-based text messaging app, just hit one million U.S. users on the Android platform only four months after launching. Backed by Accel and Benchmark Capital, the app originally arrived in the U.S. market in October 2011, following the opening of its San Francisco-based offices. In total, Zlango now boasts over 5 million users worldwide, the company reports.
 
Pro Tip: Don't Pivot Your Way Into Irrelevancy Top
Screen Shot 2012-02-01 at 12.22.46 PMThey say news is what happens to the editor on his way to work, so here's some news: podcast distributor Mevio has apparently pivoted right out of the game. The company hosted a number of well-known webcasts including, for a long time, the late GeekBrief.tv. I used the service for about two years to host my own podcast and was quite happy with the service, as were a number of other users I spoke to. This weekend the Mevio suspended a large number of their "customers" (the service was free but there was no visible way to pay for service), asking them to request producer access in order to gain access to their show pages. This move locks down the podcast completely and there is no way to change the XML to move the podcast and set iTunes to point to a new server.
 
Google Mobile Search Ad Requests More Than Doubled In 2011 Top
tastyAs more and more consumers user their smartphones for search, Google's mobile search and display ads are growing like crazy. As we reported a few weeks ago, Google's mobile ad revenues are expected to more than double from an estimated $2.5 billion last year to $5.8 billion in 2012. And today, Google is revealing a number of new data on the growth of mobile search ads and formats. Google's lead product manager for mobile search ads, Surojit Chatterjee, tells us that in December 2011 mobile search ad request volume was more than twice as high as it was in December 2010. Mobile search in general has grown five-fold worldwide in just the past two years, which is a rate comparable to the early days of desktop Google Search, he adds.
 

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